Chinmaya Mission San Jose conducts Bala Vihar for children and Vedanta discourses, Jnana Yagnas, and spiritual camps for adults. Bala Vihar is a very popular weekend cultural school for children, operating at four locations: San Jose, San Ramon, San Mateo and Fremont. Resident and visiting Acharyas conduct Jnana Yagnas and camps on the Bhagavad Geeta, the Upanishads, and other texts throughout the year.

The CMSJ devotees had a double-treat. First we heard a beautiful presentation from Swamini Kaivalyanandaji on the Chinmaya Archives project. Then Swami Siddhanandaji delighted the hearts of all with a beautiful Bhajan Sandhya program. Swamiji was accompanied by one of Bay Area’s finest and well known artists Sri Narayanan on the harmonium and Smt. Shanthi

Hari Om! Guru Poornima is a day sacred to the memory of the great Sage, Veda Vyasa. We are forever indebted to this ancient Saint who edited the four Vedas, wrote the eighteen Puranas, the Mahabharata, the Srimad Bhagavata and the Brahma Sutras. CMSJ celebrated Guru Poornima on Friday, July 27th at Chinmaya Sandeepany, with Samashti Puja

Hari Om! Vyoma Linguistic Labs Foundation (VLL) is a Bengalure, India based Sanskrit e-learning non-profit company. Chinmaya International Foundation (CIF) has been working with VLL and VLL has presented at some of CIF’s conferences. The two brothers who run VLL, Vyoma Sanskrit brothers – Venkat and Viswanathan visited Chinmaya Sandeepany on July 6th and July 7th,